VIPs, devotees throng Mutt Tumakuru: With the health condition of the 111-year-old Sri Shivakumara Swamiji of Siddaganga Mutt here continuing to be critical, people from all walks of life and VIPs have been making a beeline to the Mutt to have a glimpse of the ‘Nadedaduva Devaru’ (Walking God) since yesterday. The Seer, who is…
‘Women feel more safe with uneducated than educated’
January 17, 2019Playwright Vaidehi rues at Bahuroopi Seminar Mysuru: “Women feel safe with the uneducated lot than the educated ones because we have created a half-mad, brainless society,” said noted story writer and playwright Vaidehi in her heart-touching address. She was speaking after inaugurating the two-day Bahuroopi National Seminar on ‘Gender Equality’ organised as part of the…
NCC Mysuru gets two Twin-Seater Training Aircraft
January 17, 2019Mysuru: In a first for any National Cadet Corps (NCC) Unit in Southern States, the NCC Group Headquarters in Mysuru has received two new Microlight Aircraft — Pipistrel Virus FW 80 — to facilitate flight training for its cadets. It is a two-seater T-Tail high-wing aircraft that is ideal for initial and advanced flight training….
Distinct dance forms, dramas draw audience applause
January 17, 2019Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival to conclude tomorrow Mysuru: There was a dance form depicting Hindu-Muslim unity on one side and on the other, the dramas in different languages. Both were a treat that filled the appetite of the discerning Mysuru audience. The ongoing 18th Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival (Jan.12 to 18) that entered the fifth…
Cops seize bike with different number plates
January 17, 2019Mysuru: V.V. Puram Traffic Police have seized a bike with two different registration number plates during their routine checking on Adipampa Road in city. The Traffic Police, on Jan.14 were conducting checking of vehicles on Adipampa Road when they saw three persons riding on a bike and stopped them. During inspection of the bike, the…
Mysuru student drowns in River Cauvery
January 17, 2019Mandya: A city student, who had gone for a swim along with three of his friends to River Cauvery near Karekura village in the taluk, was reportedly drowned yesterday afternoon. While the deceased student is Hemanth (21), son of Raghuram of Mysuru, his friend who had gone with him are Kowshik, Manoj and Lokaranjan. All…
Roots and Tuber Mela in Mysuru on Jan.19, 20
January 17, 2019Mysuru: Roots and tuber crops that include potatoes, taro, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams are cultivated staple energy sources, only second to cereals. They favourably adapt to diverse soil and environmental conditions and a variety of farming systems. As the potato, eclipsed all its other cousins, particularly in cities, the consumption of tubers got restricted to…
Power disruption tomorrow
January 17, 2019Mysuru: Owing to emergency maintenance works, power supply will be disrupted tomorrow (Jan.18) in the following areas: N.R. Mohalla Sub-Division (10 am to 6 pm): Ashokapuram 1st to 13th Cross, Krishnamurthypuram 1st to 6th Cross, Sandalwood, Ballal Circle and surrounding areas. Kuvempunagar Sub-Division (10 am to 2 pm): Udayaravi Road, Jodi Basaveshwara Road, Panchamantra Road,…
Sulochana Pattabhiraman Utsavam
January 17, 2019Mysuru: Vivekananda Institute of Indian Studies, an initiative of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) and Swaralayam Arts Forum, Houston, USA, are jointly organising the 10th Annual Sulochana Pattabhiraman Utsavam on Jan.19 at the institute premises, CA-2, KIADB Industrial Housing Area, Ring Road, Hebbal, Mysuru. Karnatak Classical singer and music composer Vid. Rajkumar Bharathi will be…
Elected as Member of Agri Marketing Board
January 17, 2019Mysuru: Mysuru APMC President K. Prabhuswamy was elected as a Member of the State Agricultural Marketing Board in a keenly fought contest here on Monday. Congress-supported candidate Prabhuswamy defeated his arch-rival Venkatesh, a JD(S)-supported candidate by a single vote in the election held at Karnataka Institute for Agricultural Marketing, Hunsur Road. While Prabhuswamy got four…
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